Hoopleville

Omelet Grommet

Hoopleville

By DAVID KISH | August 19, 2009

Sushi
Sake, sashimi, tempura
Hoopleville Pop Art
Revolving sandwich
Rue De L'Espoir
Perhaps the first thing to explain about the Rue's hours is that they represent breakfast, lunch, and dinner times and, on the weekends, brunch and dinner, with a "late lunch" on Sundays. The menu, like the weekly schedule, seems designed for an indecisive Gemini, a genus of which I'm a member.
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Sushi
Sake, sashimi, tempura
Hoopleville Pop Art
Revolving sandwich
Rue De L'Espoir
Perhaps the first thing to explain about the Rue's hours is that they represent breakfast, lunch, and dinner times and, on the weekends, brunch and dinner, with a "late lunch" on Sundays. The menu, like the weekly schedule, seems designed for an indecisive Gemini, a genus of which I'm a member.
King Do Baguette and Pastry
One measure of how far Americans have come in their globetrotting culinary breadth is the number of ordinary folks I know who've tried a bánh mì, the great Vietnamese street-food sandwich.
The Local
How many times have I reviewed fried calamari just in the last decade? Maybe 70, 80 times, right?
Cosmic Steak, Pizza and Weiners
A Rhody landmark since 1977
Los Andes
It makes sense that the people who run Los Andes are the ones who had a popular place further up Chalkstone for nine years. It was named simply the Bolivian Restaurant and was, in fact, pretty definitive. At a recent visit to the new restaurant, a fellow diner enthused that the baked saltinas (potato, yucca, and cheese), an indulgence-encouraging two-buck impulse purchase "at the Bolivian," were "worth driving across town for." Indeed.
Review: Off the Boat Seafood
To find Off the Boat Seafood, a South Italian take-out joint that just this winter added a 10-table dining room and a wine list, mainlanders will pass through the Callahan Tunnel and embark on an exercise so challenging it's not unlike finding the Northwest Passage.
Korean Garden Restaurant
Despite being open only six months, Korean Garden already has 22 Internet reviews.
In search of authenticity
Friederike Munz, a 27-year-old German woman, was going to teach me how to make German potato salad the way she'd learned from her grandmother on a farm in Freiburg, Germany.
Bond Restaurant and Lounge
Boy, do these people ever wish they had gone for the James Bond theme instead of the US Savings Bond décor?
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